Top "Tar" questions

An archiving program for storing and retrieving files as a collection with support for data compression.

How to use Pigz with Tar

So I am using pigz in tar with tar --use-compress-program=pigz and this works but it doesn't use all of …

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Native .tar extraction in Powershell

I have a .tar.gz file that I need to extract. I've handled the gunzip bit with the GzipStream object …

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Installing Maven 3.0.5 in RedHat Linux

Can anyone help me installing maven 3.0.5 in linux please? I tried using wget, yum and tar command. All the commands …

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How to strip path while archiving with TAR

I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar. Let's call it mylist.txt …

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Autotools - tar This does not look like a tar archive

After running make distcheck I get the message that I have successfully built the package and is ready for distribution. …

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How to install Go in alpine linux

I am trying to install Go inside an Alpine Docker image. For that I downloaded tar file from here inside …

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how to decompress with pigz

I am trying to use pigz for parallel compress and decompress. I have found a way to compress in parallel …

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how to rename files you put into a tar archive using linux 'tar'

I'm trying to create a tar archive with a couple files, but rename those files in the archive. Right now …

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How to compare two tarball's content

I want to tell whether two tarball files contain identical files, in terms of file name and file content, not …

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Compress directory to tar.gz with Commons Compress

I'm running into a problem using the commons compress library to create a tar.gz of a directory. I have …

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